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...perceptions of the Arab people hold their leaders in check. So, no matter how pro-U.S. an Arab president may be, there are limits to what he can do in support of American policy. For decades, Islamic militants have exploited Arab leaders’ close ties to the U.S. in their ongoing effort to delegitimize and overthrow regimes in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. To weather the storm of Islamic militancy, Arab leaders must walk a fine line, which means appeasing their American benefactors when they can and spouting Arab solidarity when they must. For Saudi Arabia?...
This explains why a group of normally compliant lackeys is suddenly standing up to their bosses in Washington. Vice President Dick Cheney was thoroughly embarrassed on his recent 11-country tour of the Middle East. One by one, Arab leaders refused to even countenance an attack on Iraq. “A strike on Iraq,” declared Jordan’s King Abdullah, “will be disastrous for Iraq and the region as a whole and will threaten the security and stability of the Middle East...
Moreover, Cheney’s failure is relevant for another reason. By undertaking a promotional tour for a war against Iraq at a time when the situation in Israel was descending further into chaos, Cheney provided an opportunity for Arab leaders to air their grievances about Israel. By mixing discussions on Iraq with Israel and the Occupied Territories, the Bush administration unwittingly linked the two situations...
...Gulf War in 1990, Saddam offered to withdraw from Kuwait if Israel withdrew from the Occupied Territories. In reality, Saddam does not care about the Palestinians any more than Osama bin Laden, but like, bin Laden, he championed the Palestinian cause to shore up support in the Arab world. The first Bush administration refused to allow any linkage between Palestinians and Iraqis and thus rejected Saddam’s offer to withdraw. But now, Cheney’s mistake and the sickening escalation of violence in Israel and the Occupied Territories have etched the Iraq-Palestine link in stone...
Washington’s silence on Israel and the Occupied Territories will continue until it can wait no longer to take the “War on Terror” to Iraq. When Washington needed support from Arab and Muslim leaders in its war in Afghanistan, President Bush trumpeted what the rest of the world had acknowledged for years: the Palestinians need a state of their own. Whether the gesture was made in good faith or whether it was purely a strategic ploy, the Arabs bought it, and most Arab nations supported the war in Afghanistan...